| ABC | Artificial bee colony |
| CEC2022 | 2022 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation benchmark suite |
| DRR | Dynamic range ratio |
| FE | Function evaluation |
| FE/s | Function evaluations per second |
| GA | Genetic algorithm |
| GWO | Grey wolf optimizer |
| HHO | Harris hawks optimization |
| HPBW | Half-power beamwidth |
| MFO | Moth-flame optimization |
| MLW | Main lobe width |
| MSL | Maximum side lobe level |
| NDL | Null depth level |
| PO | Puma optimizer |
| PSO | Particle swarm optimization |
| SRW-PO | Spiral random walk enhanced puma optimizer |
| Std | Standard deviation |
| WOA | Whale optimization algorithm |